From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-12-10T05:09:34+09:00
Subject: Re: gem build options -- how to make them persist?

There is no way. I have a ticket filed for this feature. Patches welcome.

On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:09, Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On one of my systems, the pg gem won't build unless you tell it the non-standard header location:
> 
>  gem install pg -- --with-pg-dir=/usr/pgsql-9.0
> 
>  gem update pg -- --with-pg-dir=/usr/pgsql-9.0
> 
> Now, how can I set this option once and for all, so that `gem update` always uses it?
> 
> I tried putting this in my .gemrc:
> 
> gem: --with-pg-dir=/usr/pgsql-9.0
> 
> but that doesn't work (as expected, since those options are passed to gem rather than the gem's extconf).
> 
>